Where: Crawford County, Kansas (37.4° N, 94.8° W: paleocoordinates 5.8° S, 29.9° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Cherokee Shale Formation, Desmoinesian (312.8 - 306.0 Ma)
• cap ls of Mineral coal; from a black, shaly ls about a foot or so above the coal
Environment/lithology: black, argillaceous carbonate
Reposited in the USGS
Primary reference: J. Williams, W. G. Pierce, and W. H. Courtier. 1937. Pennsylvanian Invertebrate Faunas of Southeastern Kansas. In W. G.Pierce, W. H.Courtier (eds.), Geology and Coal Resources of the Southeastern Kansas Coal Field in Crawford, Cherokee, and Labette Counties 24:92-122 [M. Patzkowsky/M. Patzkowsky/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 981: authorized by Tom Olszewski, entered by Tom Olszewski on 10.03.1999
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
| Strophomenata | |
"Mesolobus mesolobus" = Chonetes mesoloba, "Mesolobus lioderma" = Mesolobus mesolobus lioderma
"Mesolobus mesolobus" = Chonetes mesoloba Norwood and Pratten 1855
"Mesolobus lioderma" = Mesolobus mesolobus lioderma Dunbar and Condra 1932 | |
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Linoproductus prattenianus Norwood and Pratten 1855 | |
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Desmoinesia muricatina Norwood and Pratten 1855 | |
| Rhynchonellata | |
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Composita subtilita Hall 1852 | |
| Lingulata | |
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Orbiculoidea sp. d'Orbigny 1847 | |
| Bivalvia | |
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Pernopecten aviculatus Shumard and Swallow 1858 scallop originally entered as "Pernipecten aviculatus"
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Palaeolima ? retifera Shumard and Swallow 1858 file clam originally entered as "Palaeolima retifera?"
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